Qualcomm Oryon CPU Architecture

Oryon is Qualcomm’s custom 64-bit CPU microarchitecture, including cache hierarchy, branch prediction, prefetch and later Flex Cache, designed in-house and scaled across Snapdragon platforms.

Official Qualcomm processor pages present Oryon as a 64-bit in-house design covering memory hierarchy, cache, branch prediction and data prefetch, later including Flex Cache, and state that it is not a licensed standard core. The architecture is described as scaling across Snapdragon PC and mobile platforms. This listing records the CPU architecture rather than Snapdragon 8 Elite or X Elite as extra SoC SKUs. Apple Silicon is a different company’s custom SoC. Microarchitectural details should be confirmed on Qualcomm’s current Oryon pages.